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submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Trump steals children from immigrant parents. It's that simple. The Trump Administration Is Trapping Migrant Kids In Shelters www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate what effect forced detransition would have on people who have experienced gender dysphoria and then taken the step to come out and get treatment. It would be a death sentence for many. It’s genocidal.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

no desire to love & raise a child can ever entitle you to what #adoption is designed to give: ownership of another person’s identity. it is this—the desire for a simulation of natal parenthood within a traditional patriarchal model of the family—that is the deep obstacle to true reform of adoption.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"Now the high court has issued another ban on the media naming a family judge found to have seriously abused their adopted children." #adoptee #adoption 🥚 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The first official Memorial Day observance was in Arlington in 1868, three years after the Civil War ended—but the first recorded such observance was less than a month after the war’s end in 1865, when formerly enslaved Black people in Charleston commemorated the Union soldiers who helped free them.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

JUST-RELEASED GEORGIA TEEN Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.” More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

submitted 6 days ago • 234 comments

So everyone advocating for caution and regulation of AI are absolutely right (as if there were any doubt). Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline www.huffpost.com/entry/anthro...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Agree. As a former senior patrol agent, it is state sponsored terrorism to not identify yourself as law enforcement, kidnap & disappear people. We know these agents are arresting American citizens, legal residents & people granted asylum which violates US law. Yet, they all have qualified immunity.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The girls had a very good week. #caturday

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

so who do we think trump is manipulating the market for today?

submitted 8 days ago • 120 comments

🚨 10 years is a long time in dog years, but especially in technology years. This is simply irresponsible.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: “Former LA Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Plead Guilty to Threatening to Bomb City Hall Last Year” Sounds like the deputy mayor called in a fake bomb threat in an attempt to set up pro-Palestine organizers. Wonder what the city attorney's role is in all of this: www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

This is unconscionable.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

submitted 8 days ago • 103 comments

But sure, let's ban all children from getting covid vaccines. The stupidity is mindboggling.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Day 985. Children with Long COVID "reported a quality of life comparable to peers with cancer or cystic fibrosis, with many expressing a deep sense of ineffectiveness and loss of confidence…underscoring the urgent need for integrated mental health screening…" Or… A cure? How about a cure?

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you” The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.

submitted 9 days ago • 93 comments

The most stupid and cruel people are running the gov.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 10 days ago • 152 comments

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 10 days ago • 693 comments

Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!

submitted 11 days ago • 629 comments

“Crypto has not just facilitated fraud, money-laundering and…financial crime on a gargantuan scale. The industry has also developed a grubby relationship with the executive branch of America’s government that outstrips that of Wall Street or any other industry.” economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 116 comments

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

submitted 15 days ago • 617 comments

$45 million would fund gender-affirming care in the entire U.S. military for the next decade.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

Citizenship is just a game to them

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Why is the DNC revoting on leadership roles? Who is David Hogg and why's everyone talking about him? And what does it have to do with the media, Jim Clyburn and DEI?

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

⚠️ Human Rights Watch: “The Israeli government’s plan to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an abhorrent escalation of its ongoing crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and acts of genocide”

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

“We are staring our 100-day plan with a laser focus on bringing down the cost of living” - Christopher Luxon, 4 December 2023

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Q&A from a talk I gave last week. Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?" A: Fascism. It's fascism.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 18 days ago • 487 comments

On this day May 13th, 1985 the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the Move Home at 6221 Osage Avenue killing 11 people including 5 children. collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/move...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

This isn't hyperbole. This is who owns the current VP of the US. Believe them when they tell you who they are.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Truth, and it is not just undocumented people who are being sent to countries not of their origin. People who are documented & who have not committed crimes have been kidnapped & trafficked to a prison in El Salvador. Human trafficking is illegal. Without due process, this could happen to anyone.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

These are the policies that keep families together.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

ICE threatening to arrest congresspeople exercising oversight authority over them is full shark-jumping autogolpe territory

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

About a 25% reduction of risk of cardiovascular events from the shingles vaccine, yet this administration is clearly taking an antivax stance. Impeach these fools. academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“She’s not yours to pity. She’s mine to marvel at.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

submitted 21 days ago • 74 comments

There should be bipartisan concern about the reports that DOGE is merging HHS, Social Security, and IRS data into one database. That is the trifecta of personal information, and any competent person (or machine) could essentially put together a complete profile of your life.

submitted 22 days ago • 96 comments